Acererak Is Caught In The Revolving Door Again

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Casual Combo Jank Mono-Black Theme/Gimmick Venture Into the Dungeon

DingoLingo03

Gather The Phylacteries (35)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Asmodeus the Archfiend
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Hostile Negotiations
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Shrouded Lore
• 1x Spoils of the Vault
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Perform The Ritual (21)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Demon's Horn
• 1x Diamond Mare
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Mortuary
• 1x Pact Weapon
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Prism Ring
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Staff of the Death Magus
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Commander (1)

Souls For Consumption (43)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 26x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1x Vesuva

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Tainted Pact

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PITIFUL MORTALS, LOOK UPON MY MAGNIFICENCE AND TREMBLE!

I, ACERERAK, THE ETERNAL, WILL TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN RENDING YOUR SOULS FROM YOUR FLESH!

...AS SOON AS I FIGURE OUT HOW TO ESCAPE FROM THIS WRETCHED WHIRLING CONTRAPTION...

Deck Summary

Soooooooo...this is single-handedly the dumbest deck that I've built to date. It does work though, and every time it does I get a contact high from laughing so hard.

This is how the deck is intended to function: Acererak has a Venture Into The Dungeon ability that can be easily abused. Specifically, it can be manipulated into infinitely draining your opponents of life, for the low, low cost of {B}. The combo pieces are as follows: Carnival of Souls, Heartless Summoning or Urza's Incubator, and Acererak the Archlich. Once you've cast Acererak, you get to choose which dungeon you venture into, bouncing it to your hand if Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation hasn't been completed. Emphasis on choose. Avoid the Tomb entirely and you can repeat the bouncy fun-times game as much as you'd like. The prime dungeon to venture into is: Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, as it nets us a Treasure, drains our opponents for 1, and draws us a card, all in one neat little package.

In building this deck, I embodied the spirit of my unga bunga ancestors and just dumped every viable tutor into this that I could think of to grab those combo pieces. EVERY. VIABLE. TUTOR. In fact, the deck is so simple it can be divided into three parts: Tutors, Ramp, and Utility. The Tutors and Ramp are pretty self explanatory. The Utilities include some things that negate the life loss from Carnival and a few backup staple combo pieces that are haphazardly sprinkled in only to appeal to my smooth lizard brain.

Future goals: I plan on trimming back some of the fat in this deck, as I recognize some components are just there for the hell of it, but it will stay a totally casual, room temperature IQ deck that seeks to do the one thing its good at. Make me cackle like a ghoul.

-Cheers

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 9 months ago Achieved #22 position in Commander / EDH 9 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 9 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Goblin 1/1 R, Skeleton 1/1 B, The Atropal, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B